National Nap Day

March 15th was national nap day, I am sure it is because the day before, March 14th was the first day of daylight savings time. 

National nap day, was never so poignant as it was this year.  I get up unreasonably early as it is.  I wake up at 5:30 a.m. and exercise for about a half hour, then I get showered and dressed for the day. On the 15th, (the first day back to work after daylight savings time), my husband woke me up and said “5:30, time to hit it.”  I drug my sorry self out of bed and headed downstairs to my elliptical.  It was a hard work out, I was so tired.  I couldn’t believe how much difference an hour less of sleep made.  I drug myself upstairs and showered.  About an hour after I got up, I flipped open my computer to check my email.  I glanced down at the clock,  it said 5:30.  Crap, my computer hadn’t switched, maybe this was because the idiots in Washington keep moving daylight savings time up.  Just then my phone rang, it was my husband.  “What time does the clock say”, he asked.  “My computer says 5:30”, I responded.  “So does my car clock”.  I sat there in stunned silence.  It was 5:30 in the morning, and I had already been up for an hour.  That means in real time, like two day ago time I got up at 3:30.  Unreal, nightmarish, horrendous. 

I was going to be  tired all day and there was nothing to it.  I pulled myself together and managed to head to work .  On the radio in my car, they announced that it was ‘national nap day’.  How appropriate, and also how wonderful.  My day brightened immediately.  I usually don’t have time for the luxury of a nap, but if it was ‘national nap day’ who could refuse me, how could I possibly ignore this.  It was perfect.  It was going to be a good day after all.  Well starting about 6:30 p.m., after I got my national nap.